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re: Mind-blowing 2020 election math.....
Posted on 1/21/21 at 7:56 pm to Wednesday
Posted on 1/21/21 at 7:56 pm to Wednesday
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8 people have explained how Biden lost half the counties Obama won and still got roughly 18 million more “votes.”
I must have missed that. Maybe you can dumb it down for me.
I can try.
1. OP’s numbers are wrong, Biden actually won 527 counties. Still less than Obama in ‘08, though.
2. Biden could have lost the popular vote and the election, and still won more votes than any Democratic candidate in history. That’s what happens when a record number of people vote in an election.
3. As has been discussed ad nauseum, the US population is heavily weighted towards urban centers. In fact, the counties Biden won account for 67 million more people (total population, not just voters) than the counties Trump won:
So those Biden counties account for 60% of the US population, yet Biden only won 51.3% of the popular vote.
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Posted on 1/21/21 at 7:58 pm to lostinbr
Data can be summarized a lot of different ways
Posted on 1/21/21 at 8:43 pm to lostinbr
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So those Biden counties account for 60% of the US population, yet Biden only won 51.3% of the popular vote.
I’m supposed to believe Biden got 75-85% of the urban vote?
Posted on 1/21/21 at 9:20 pm to lostinbr
Sure he did. He won a greater proportion of the “vote” (with no fraud at all in mail in voting bc that’s never been demonstrated with mail in votes) in populated counties than Obama, but won fewer number of counties than Obama. That’s completely believable 
This post was edited on 1/21/21 at 9:24 pm
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